Several projects during this week’s annual Hackathon for Microsoft employees focused on using machine translation technology from Microsoft Translator to connect people around the world— whether in business contexts or to help travelers communicate...

If you didn't notice already, Windows 10 has now launched and is available as a free upgrade in 111 languages.
We are in the process of uploading the final Windows 10 terminology and translations to the Terminology Search section of the Microsoft...

Microsoft's free machine translation system – Microsoft Translator – has been expanded to include Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian . This brings the number of supported languages to 50. Serbian is supported in both the Latin and Cyrillic...

The Office for Mac 2016 Preview was announced today. It includes updated versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook and is available in 16 languages:
Brazilian Portuguese
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Danish...

February 21 is UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day , which promotes linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. The theme of International Mother Language Day this year is “Inclusion in and through education: Language counts...

If you were watching the Windows 10 presentation earlier this week, you may have been wondering when you can get to try out Windows 10 in your language. Good news: the latest test build of Windows 10 was just announced on the Windows Blog and it will...

We currently make Windows Phone localization style guides available for free in almost 50 languages to help app developers create and localize Windows Phone apps . We've now added 5 new languages and improved the guidelines for the existing languages...

If you are developing apps for Windows 8.1, Windows Phone, or traditional desktop applications, you may already be using the Multilingual App Toolkit (MAT) to localize your app into other languages.
Till now, MAT has been focused on Microsoft technologies...

As a developer, there’s a bit more to localizing your app than just doing a right click | add French , but the Multilingual App Toolkit (MAT)—Microsoft’s app localization add-in for Visual Studio—takes the headache out of getting...

Microsoft's Global Readiness team is being featured in the latest edition of Brand Quarterly magazine . The article Global and Local: Getting It Right by Paige Williams covers the beginnings of the Global Readiness team and our role in representing...

Today, the Microsoft Terminology API is being expanded with a much broader set of language combinations as well as new settings for case sensitivity.
If you are developing apps for a global audience, you will now be able to create your apps for Windows...

At last week’s BUILD 2014 developer conference in San Francisco, Cameron Lerum did a great walkthrough of things to consider when publishing your app globally .
Cameron’s talk Apps without Borders goes through the process of planning globalization...

February 21 is UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day , which promotes linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. The theme of International Mother Language Day this year is “Local languages for global citizenship: spotlight...

You can now use Office in Uyghur for the first time ever.
The Uyghur “Language Interface Pack” can be installed as a free download on top of an existing version of Office 2013 (in any language).
Download Uyghur Office 2013 Language...

A couple of weeks ago, I announced the new Terminology API that allows you to tap into the terminology and phrases from the Microsoft Language Portal and provide this translation data to your users through your own app or web site.
The first adopter...

You can now use Office 2013 in Central Kurdish, Odia, Punjabi and Sindhi. The “Language Interface Packs” on the list below have just released and can be installed as free downloads on top of an existing version of Office 2013 (in any language...

If you are already using the Microsoft Language Portal to find Microsoft product terminology and phrases, you’ll already be familiar with manual searches for translations from Windows, Office, Visual Studio, Dynamics, Windows Phone, Skype and many...

Another 8 international Microsoft Style Guides for creating and localizing Windows Store and Windows Phone apps are now available for free download on the Microsoft Language Portal .
They cover the new languages added for Windows 8 and Office 2013...

A big Thank You to everyone who replied to our survey on the international versions of our Server and Tools products.
As the international team keeps receiving very valuable feedback from across the world, the survey has been extended until September...

You can now use Office 2013 in another 9 languages. The “Language Interface Packs” on the list below have just released and can be installed as free downloads on top of an existing version of Office 2013 (in any language).
For Belarusian...

If you are using translated versions of Visual Studio , SQL Server , Windows Azure , Windows Server or System Center , we are looking for your feedback.
We are dedicated to continually improve our products for our international customers. We are therefore...

Avoiding parking tickets during visits to the Klingon empire just got a whole lot easier, thanks to the Bing Translator team.
With the Bing Translator App for Windows 8 announced today, you can get instant machine translation in more than 40 languages...

The Microsoft Language Portal has been updated with terminology and UI translations from Office 2013, Windows Phone 8 and new languages added to Windows 8 and Office 2013.
The portal provides online search for thousands of translations used in Microsoft...